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Thursday, July 23, 2026 · No. 204Weather: Los Angeles: Clear night · 69°F · H 94° / L 66°

End-of-Term Audit: Learned, Forgotten, Wish-Forgotten

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The exams are over, which means I can finally study. This is the paradox nobody warns you about: during the term, you learn what will be tested. After the term, you learn what you were actually curious about the whole time.

The audit works like this. One column for things I genuinely learned: the scheduler diagrams I can still draw from memory, the eigenvalue intuition that finally clicked in week nine. One column for things I technically passed, may they rest quietly. And one column for things I would like my brain to release entirely, starting with the exact phrasing of question 4b.

The notes from the first column are being rewritten properly and published on this site. Rewriting them is the studying. If you can't explain a B-tree to a stranger on the internet, you were only ever renting the knowledge.